DETROIT, MI - Anyone who still doubts that a 3.3-mile lightrail line is being built on Woodward Avenue need only head down to the lower section of that road over the course of the next 120 days or so.

There, between Adams Street and Campus Martius Park, heavy construction equipment began tearing up concrete Monday for utility work and ultimately a $140 million streetcar route that will stretch from Grand Boulevard in New Center to Congress in downtown Detroit. The M1 Rail is scheduled to be complete near the end of 2016.